Last Weekend

Fall semester classes start this week.  On one hand I am looking forward to getting back into the classroom.  On the other hand I have enjoyed all of the reading and cooking I have been doing. If I were independently wealthy...  Anyway here is what I did to enjoy my last free weekend for a while:

Had pizza and beer at Classic Italian Pizza.

Read while sipping an iced mocha at Solo Cafe.

Had jerk chicken at Taste of the Caribbean.

This lunch was awesome!  Too bad the place is run very inefficiently.  That probably won't stop me from going back though. The sides are rice, cabbage, and fried plantains.

For dinner I made a shrimp po'boy and some french fries.  Tasty!  I think I am finally getting the hang of frying things.  Usually when I try to bread and fry anything, what-ever-it-is usually sticks to the pan and the breading peels off. I forgot that I had okra pickles, but I ate them when I used the leftover shrimp to make another po'boy for lunch on Sunday.

Since I had buttermilk left over from last week's muffin making and Saturday's shrimp battering, I made another batch of soda muffins.

It is hot and icky here so what do I do on Sunday?  Make baked pasta so that I have to run my oven for a while!  Good thing the baked penne with vegetables is so tasty.

Heading in to late summer means that is also green chile season.  I picked up a couple of pounds and roasted it and packed it up in baggies.  I now have frozen green chile to turn into green chile stew
when the mood strikes.

I certainly ate well this weekend.  Overall I made about half of what I had in mind to make while on vacation this summer.  I will still plug away at the list because I have yet to do things like make salsa and a summer vegetable stew.  Guess there is always next weekend.